There is so much talk about talent in these kind of videos, that it makes me wonder if people even realize how much these guys have practised! That is as important as talent, without doubt.
@svantebeaverman lol yeah I hear ya, they've been around for a while, you can hear the change between when Brian started and when this was made in 2009 i think...either way, he and his band are quite amazing, oh by the way, if anyone didn't know, the trumpet player is Brian's dad
This video epitomizes good time, great sound from all the players, and a definite energy towards the music, which a lot of musicians can often lack in their playing. I love the music Mr. Culbertson and hope to hear you live sometime soon.
There aren't many artists out there that can play improvisation this well. Just puts a smile on my face and makes me want to get on the drum set and play!
i don't think there is much (or any) improvisation in this song.. doesn't matter because it's one hell of a song and i've been listening it thousands of times, but i don't think any of the solos are improvised, everything is carefully written out :)
@doublecyrille It's actually quite possible to improvise like that. There must be some amount of preparation (i.e playing something they liked and keeping it), but to write out that much improvisation would involve a great deal of unnecessary work.
It has obviously been taken home and cleaned up, so bits of several different performances exist on the same track, but the improvisations were probably spontaneous at the time of playing.
That being said, his arrangements are impeccable.
Impressive line-up: Brian's father, Dave Koz, Ray parker Jr., Michael Lington, Eric Marienthal.... Check my video response, Brian is truly a great guy! :)))))
This is the first time I've heard Brian Culbertson. AlI can say is wooow, what a musican. I haven't jazz this good in ages. I look foward to more tracks by him, GRReat.
I have to laugh at these pompous record collectors (obviously not musicians) that trivialize the enormously talented musicians here by comparing them with great musicians of the past. Why compare? These labels like "Smooth Jazz" are just media rhetoric. These guys are MUSICIANS, plain and simple. The fact that there's a sick arrangement on this piece instead of improvisation makes it inferior how? These small-minded wannabe's bashing the new stars is pathetic.
@nbfinex I've been playing professionally since age 11 and say that these "plain and simple" musicians are mere copy cats of better musicians who played this style better back in the 1970's. That's been my point all along. Everyone who thinks this is good needs to check out "Return to Forever" and "The Brecker Brothers" (especially everything Michael Brecker ever recorded) because, in my professional opinion, Brian Culbertson & Company have less soul and less technique than their predecessors.
Actually, I'm a fan of both eras of jazz. Regardless, it STILL encompasses an element of jazz. I'm actually an acid/fusion/funk jazz player and listener myself. Don't get me wrong, I go back to Buddy Rich and Pat LaBarbera because I LOVE swing and be-bop. I just got into New Orleans 2nd line with Stanton Moore behind the kit. I got to also include Dave McRae on that organ. Just NASTY! Culbertson is amazing. I wish I can see him next week here in Columbus.
Musicians: Wayne Bruce - guitar Lenny Castro - percussion Brian Culbertson - piano, trombone Jim Culbertson - trumpet Eric Darius - tenor saxophone Lamar Jones - bass Marqueal Jordan - tenor sax Dave Koz - soprano & tenor sax Nick Lane - trombone Michael Lington - alto & tenor sax Eric Marienthal - alto, tenor & baritone sax Eddie Miller - keyboards, Hammond B3 organ Chris Miskel - drums Ray Parker, Jr. - guitar Sheldon Reynolds - guitar Rob Schaer - trumpet Michael Stever - trumpet
Talk about powerful stuff! This is music at it's most awesomeness!! To put a cherry on top......you got my favorite men all in one room....Dave, Brain, Eric, Michael, and Eric D!!!! I'm in heaven!!!! Thanks for posting this spectacular video!
I am 16 years old. Me and my friends, which are about the same age, found this by coincidence. We are now sure about one thing. THIS IS AWESOME AND WE WILL NOT LET IT DIE!
I have played reeds for more than 30 years, and I can say, you only become good through practice, practice, practice. Einstein once said that simplicity is the art or Genius. These guys make this gig look simple.
This is just mind blowing. Love this band!! Theses guys are so great together. I especially liked the slide trombone,don't see enough of that anymore. He is so talented.
Thank you for your quick reply. I'm a relative newcomer to the utube scene, but not to the music scene. Boy am I enjoying some of the performances. One final comment on BC, re his trombone playing, absolutely out of this world. Music, especially of the variety that touches the soul - look at BC's expressions whilst playing & listening - is what creates vibrancy, life & joy. All the veryy best.
The featured sax player in this video is Dave Koz, top of the line smooth jazz sax player. The other featured sax players in the "Live from the Inside" album are Eric Darius, Michael Lington, and Eric Marienthal. All of them are smooth jazz stars in their own right, so look em up!! Oh, and while you're at it, look up Gerald Albright!! You won't be disappointed...
It is obvious that I was referring to 30 years in terms of jazz/rock fusion (with some funk thrown in). It's been 50 - 60 years in terms of free form jazz creative artists and another 100 years in terms of jazz's evolution. Brian is playing a style that began 30 years go and was performed better by the originators of that style. I do not hold that against him. I want Brian to succeed musically as well as financially, but he will not get my money. I reserve my support for great living legends.
@HenryAlliance, hi, would you be kind enough to tell me who the sax player is with BC on Get it On, is it M Lington? Thank you. This guy & Kim Waters are my favourite musicians. This music fills me with so much joyful energy, a true gift of classic/professional & dedicated, soulful people. Absolutely superb.
This is smooth jazz with a funk groove & jazzy solos, but in defense of pablosaxo & jazz purists everywhere, "This isn't jazz". The closest thing to jazz here are those "jazzy solos". This has a minimum of improvisation and therefore only qualifies as "Smooth Jazz". Sure the musicianship is excellent! However, the Brecker Brothers were playing jazz/funk with REAL solos back in the 1970's. I refer you all to the "Back to Back" album with Will Lee, Don Grolnick & Steve Gadd as just one example.
@HenryAlliance and @pablosaxo- I completely understand your points of view. Nothing will ever compare to the uniqueness of bona fide, old school pure jazz improvisation much like there will never be another "Godfather of Soul". I also concede that current music nowdays is highly commercial, smooth jazz included. However, my intention was for people to realize that smooth jazz can be really good in a live setting such as this w/ competent musicians. Ke$ha and Gaga got nothing on this, IMHO...
@EnocMunoz - True enough. The studio recording is in fact a good production and the performance quality has the energy of a live concert. It reminds me of my Richmond group, "Chez Roue". I have worked with Bob Funk (trombone with the Uptown horns who worked with James Brown) and I have recorded with James Brown's son (who is very talented), so I have seen, and participated in, this type of high energy performance. There is nothing wrong with that, but I live for musical creativity and interplay!
@EnocMunoz Yes I agree with you its fun and its moving old skool Jazz will always be there and its great but this new stuff is great to in its own way one its new and two it feels good
@HenryAlliance... this has everything to do with jazz.... jazz, like any other style, has to move on, develope, otherwise it becomes stale and locked in the past... if you were a fan of fats waller, then heard bill evans you would say evans wasnt playing jazz.... each new age learns from what came before, a style changes, but never loses its identity.... dont put jazz into a bubble and claim anything new or fresh doesnt belong there
Fortunately, jazz did move on and develope "jazz/rock fusion" back in the 1970's. (Yes, there were experiments in the 1960's.) Chick's RTF plus Weather Report and the Brecker Bros were some of the best examples of that newly created genre. Brian's re-creation of that style has high energy and it looks good on video, but it's trite and 30 years behind the times. It also doesn't have John Coltrane's inspiration or Michael Brecker's virtuosity.
@slapmyfunkybass My point is also that jazz does move on and develope, but you apparently seem to have missed 30 years of innovation by the likes of Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor. You are obviously not listening to Billy Taylor or Joel Futterman. Those are two of a handful of creative musicians who are taking jazz beyond what we have already heard and into new realms today. Musically Yours,
@HenryAlliance... why 30 years? innovation has always been in jazz, not just for the last 30 years... you stated earlier this is not jazz yet you go on to say other musicians are taking jazz beyond what we have already heard which is a complete contradiction.... this is jazz, a fusion of jazz and funk... if people listen to this and it opens doors to the jazz greats then why not... stop living in the past, listen to the music for what it is
@slapmyfunkybass hi, would you be kind enough to tell me who the sax player is with BC on Get it On, is it M Lington? Thank you. This guy & Kim Waters are my favourite musicians. This music fills me with so much joyful energy, a true gift of classic/professional & dedicated, soulful people. Absolutely superb.
@slapmyfunkybass When the majority of mass audiences are not hip enough to appreciate the aforementioned geniuses, they'll settle for Brian C and Dave K. If the rest of the mass audience is even less discerning they'll settle for Kenny G or Boney J. Take consolation in these facts: Brian C and Dave K is are good performers plus their music is superior to Kenny G's and Boney J's.
@HenryAlliance I have to laugh at these pompous record collectors (obviously not musicians) that trivialize the enormously talented musicians here by comparing them with great musicians of the past. Why compare? These labels like "Smooth Jazz" are just media rhetoric. These guys are MUSICIANS, plain and simple. The fact that there's a sick arrangement on this piece instead of improvisation makes it inferior how? These small-minded wannabe's bashing the new stars is pathetic.
i enjoyed this song more because dave and brian have got some similar gestures when they perfom, they usually act funny stuff you know like puppets hahaha and this makes their performances more enjoyable
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rockfather50 2 days ago
13 personas son sordas o reggetoneros que viene siendo lo mismo
MrGama2 4 days ago
Brecker Brothers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
liubojarreau 4 days ago in playlist Funk/Jazz/ Latin/Fusion
DAMN!
c0d3x001 1 week ago
I need to make an exercise tape using Bri as inspiration. Crippled can move, it's a miracle, thank you jesus.
TheDianaGeorgina 1 week ago
My crippled ass can move to this music, ty.
TheDianaGeorgina 1 week ago
There is so much talk about talent in these kind of videos, that it makes me wonder if people even realize how much these guys have practised! That is as important as talent, without doubt.
Don't get me wrong, these guys are fantastic.
svantebeaverman 2 weeks ago
@svantebeaverman lol yeah I hear ya, they've been around for a while, you can hear the change between when Brian started and when this was made in 2009 i think...either way, he and his band are quite amazing, oh by the way, if anyone didn't know, the trumpet player is Brian's dad
CaptainAsteraoth 1 week ago
@CaptainAsteraoth Yes! Haha that's awesome
svantebeaverman 1 week ago
Love this, everyone is so talented, love the sound! Awesome.
learnit2earnit 2 weeks ago
hes bad man, i love plying piano. hes a major inspiration
MusicProdigyKarren 2 weeks ago
1:09 JOSE MORINHO WEARING GAY GLASSES....LOL
AvnerFerdinand 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from EnocMunoz
JAZZ UP UR LIFE!!!
AvnerFerdinand 3 weeks ago
I have listened to Brian C for years but never thought to look him up on You tube. Wow, is all I can say. Fantastic!!
jlunney122 3 weeks ago
thumbs up for the trumpet player getting a little too excited at 4:48
DSA96TboneDrums 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos 2
jajajaj!
baysideful 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from EnocMunoz
wat a bass groove!!!
adriantiko3131 1 month ago
Brian's a genius!!
baysideful 1 month ago
Nice
Fa11enHero 1 month ago
I wanna know what he's smokin lol! Gotta be sum good stuff! Great job guys, must be proud of yourselves!
nechardox5 1 month ago
Do Teclado ao Trombone!!! Maravilha!
lairtonrezende 1 month ago
thta's funkyyyyyyyyyyyyy
niahu11 1 month ago
Ahhhhhhhhhhh nasty music
TheJosan14 1 month ago
These drums are disgusting.
MattKHall 1 month ago
Who's that on keys and on the drums. Amazing band.
roobzsta7 1 month ago
boner time
EutecHydra 1 month ago
Ohh dear...
szakeee 1 month ago
THIS IS SO COOL!!! I LIKE IT
anucopa 1 month ago
I made this a morning wake-up alarm tone!!!
universanjar 1 month ago
11 people are deaf
EutecHydra 1 month ago
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EutecHydra 1 month ago
Ey children! My father bought a surface in Tiger! We have to go in boat. Re canchero!
Stickyfran 2 months ago
Fantastic, does not get any better than that.
natebalser1 2 months ago
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ctcole77 1 month ago
Simply Amazing.... The best musicians of the whole Wolrd! That was the first song what i heard from Brian, since this, i can't listen other music! :D
A musician from Hungary...
And sorry for my bad english... :D
Kimifan199 2 months ago
ROCK THE JAM... SPANK IT.. WOW
Lestrat85 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
YOU ARE THE MAN...KILLER!!!
Lestrat85 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
I keep trying to post a comment, but every time I hit the replay button and it leaves me speechless lol
Goddamn this piece is amazing.
SomeDudeishPerson 2 months ago
SIMPLEMENT .....ESPATARRANTMEN FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!
718koki 2 months ago
Muy Bakano‼
TheGironDrummer 2 months ago
This group is tight. You can tell that everyone is having a great time.
Ward00 2 months ago
This video epitomizes good time, great sound from all the players, and a definite energy towards the music, which a lot of musicians can often lack in their playing. I love the music Mr. Culbertson and hope to hear you live sometime soon.
edubbury 2 months ago
and god said, let there be an organ solo!
jeacmusic 2 months ago
this video totaly rocks !!!!!!! unbelieveble how these guys play !!!
remideceuster 2 months ago
This man is loaded with talent.Not only he's a finesse keyboard player but plays the trombone as well.His fun to watch live.
edex7 2 months ago
dave koz
MrMusisiembongan 2 months ago
The best of the best jams with real live funk players. Thanks Brian and all...
HakaCity 2 months ago
Quá hay, quá phê
thehung70 2 months ago
waooooo
Ronaldpawer 2 months ago
waooooo
Ronaldpawer 2 months ago
i like this song !!!!
MyChecolate 2 months ago
Juventud,talento, virtuosismo y toda la magia en esos dedos de colibri.Realmente un mago del jazz actual.
jorge44613 2 months ago
ดีดี คับ ชอบ dave koz มาก
MrJasaxman 2 months ago
is that dave koz?
chiefmojorising1 2 months ago
my gosh.. this video.. I watch this all the time.. explosion of talent... extraordinary performance.. the whole CD is extraordinary..
Lilacjag1 3 months ago
There aren't many artists out there that can play improvisation this well. Just puts a smile on my face and makes me want to get on the drum set and play!
aussieinannarbor 3 months ago
@aussieinannarbor
i don't think there is much (or any) improvisation in this song.. doesn't matter because it's one hell of a song and i've been listening it thousands of times, but i don't think any of the solos are improvised, everything is carefully written out :)
doublecyrille 3 months ago
@doublecyrille It's actually quite possible to improvise like that. There must be some amount of preparation (i.e playing something they liked and keeping it), but to write out that much improvisation would involve a great deal of unnecessary work.
It has obviously been taken home and cleaned up, so bits of several different performances exist on the same track, but the improvisations were probably spontaneous at the time of playing.
That being said, his arrangements are impeccable.
bboy2388 2 months ago
woww mui sekos
saultrox 3 months ago
whoow!! i wish i can see you in person guys!!!
imlrcatala 3 months ago
i fucked my girl so hard with this song ommggggg it was wonderful
bloodhunter2 3 months ago
@bloodhunter2 Should i do that in mine?? hehehe!!!
imlrcatala 3 months ago
@imlrcatala lmao ...hell yeah
bloodhunter2 3 months ago
so much talent greatness all in one room!!!
MrMgfrank 3 months ago 12
"Wow", Don't know what to say. Talk about head rush, Hit that sweet spot,
Fan for life.
sacnusum 3 months ago
que excelente realmente me gusta que frenesi en el que me ha heccho entrar esta cancion solo memotiva a t ocar y gozarla
1815sammy 3 months ago
Impressive line-up: Brian's father, Dave Koz, Ray parker Jr., Michael Lington, Eric Marienthal.... Check my video response, Brian is truly a great guy! :)))))
jazzkovacs 3 months ago
!!!(",)!!!
biboingka 3 months ago
!!!(",)!!!
biboingka 3 months ago
This is the first time I've heard Brian Culbertson. AlI can say is wooow, what a musican. I haven't jazz this good in ages. I look foward to more tracks by him, GRReat.
bjjazzfan 3 months ago 16
@bjjazzfan i'd say this is more funky-like isn't it?
asuraywolfgang 2 months ago
awesome amazing thank you
DimaKobeshavidze 3 months ago
BRIAN TOCA EL PIANO COMO UN PERCUSIONISTA... CURIOSA FORMA POCAS COSAS SE PUEDEN DECIR MAS SIN SALIRSE DE LA PENTATÓNICA
TheAlfredosanz 3 months ago
Nice to hear some real musicians instead of all this computer driven beat box stuff.
Keep is coming Brian.
MrTea4u2 3 months ago
is that Eric Marienthal playing baritone sax in the horn section?
andreghouse 3 months ago
@andreghouse Yea..
TripleOctaveMusic 3 months ago
@andreghouse definately is!!
TheSaxMaster100 3 months ago
Muzak played with passion is still...muzak.
leemajella 4 months ago
impresionante!!!
manuysunuevavida 4 months ago
just one word..... passion
ELVIAJERO56 4 months ago
AWESOME
mungoo707 4 months ago
God Bless this Kind of Musicians! What a Feeling!
Hamzedortiz 4 months ago
estos muchachos si que se divierten !
danipon8 5 months ago
reminds me of woody herman with eddie harris, brian culbertson does.
maggot1111666 5 months ago
Hey.. what your listening to..is it good or bad. Not mentioning old stuff back in 70's, I hear it good.....and Ioved it.
ha836122 5 months ago
loved it!! awesome!!!!!
prettymiwa 5 months ago
Just sitting on this studio for this song would be my dream vacation !!!!
schlumberger112 5 months ago
Have seen the man in concert. He will blow you away and rock the house!!
TheMamadel1 5 months ago
I have to laugh at these pompous record collectors (obviously not musicians) that trivialize the enormously talented musicians here by comparing them with great musicians of the past. Why compare? These labels like "Smooth Jazz" are just media rhetoric. These guys are MUSICIANS, plain and simple. The fact that there's a sick arrangement on this piece instead of improvisation makes it inferior how? These small-minded wannabe's bashing the new stars is pathetic.
nbfinex 5 months ago
@nbfinex I've been playing professionally since age 11 and say that these "plain and simple" musicians are mere copy cats of better musicians who played this style better back in the 1970's. That's been my point all along. Everyone who thinks this is good needs to check out "Return to Forever" and "The Brecker Brothers" (especially everything Michael Brecker ever recorded) because, in my professional opinion, Brian Culbertson & Company have less soul and less technique than their predecessors.
HenryAlliance 5 months ago
@HenryAlliance
just cuz they aint the first, doesnt mean they cant be just as good. what is soul by the way, i dont think that is a technical music term.
maggot1111666 5 months ago
vey good
wilsonbass77 6 months ago
Fantastic!!!! Dave Koz.......BIG!!!! yeaahhhh
contralto01 6 months ago
great smooth jazz artists performance
chsgmoney 6 months ago
i hate it when people over classify stuff! a good piece of music is a good piece of music! go play berkeley professor somewhere else.
metalcahones 6 months ago
oohh yeahh..very very great !!!!
rupints 6 months ago
สวดยอด มาก
banksaxophone 6 months ago
go -C-!
acheesetoasty14 6 months ago
Mmmm mmm mmmm.....pure joy listening to this music!
drembden1 6 months ago
I caught myself with a big smile arround my mouth at the end =) AWSOME
Pessus 6 months ago
no other genre touches me as Jazz, especially jazz piano
Kazekane 6 months ago
putz ...
Que delicia de groove!!!!!!
digoptb1 6 months ago
Musica de veritat!!! Real music!!!!!
xeviatope69 7 months ago
dude i never knew Brian had such chops!
nateinunderaminute 7 months ago
Mean fucken bass Lamar
danzreggae 7 months ago
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Actually, I'm a fan of both eras of jazz. Regardless, it STILL encompasses an element of jazz. I'm actually an acid/fusion/funk jazz player and listener myself. Don't get me wrong, I go back to Buddy Rich and Pat LaBarbera because I LOVE swing and be-bop. I just got into New Orleans 2nd line with Stanton Moore behind the kit. I got to also include Dave McRae on that organ. Just NASTY! Culbertson is amazing. I wish I can see him next week here in Columbus.
drumma4lyfe06 8 months ago
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drumma4lyfe06 8 months ago
4:58 is one of the most beautiful sax solo that i listen in the last decade...
EggTheBox 8 months ago
At 2:30 the piano solo going into the Cut is just Magic!
raglanboynz 8 months ago
Uauu!!! Mto bommm!!!
LuizReborn 8 months ago
AWESOME BASS !
MrDocfunk 8 months ago
tonysaxjazz 8 months ago
Talk about powerful stuff! This is music at it's most awesomeness!! To put a cherry on top......you got my favorite men all in one room....Dave, Brain, Eric, Michael, and Eric D!!!! I'm in heaven!!!! Thanks for posting this spectacular video!
hippychick48 8 months ago
Wow, Dave Koz is in the zone on this one!!!
saxophoneplayer19 9 months ago
Dave Koz owned. Heard this on the radio, and it really good. top five big bands ever ide say
maggot1111666 9 months ago
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HenryAlliance 5 months ago
@maggot1111666 Go to school.
HenryAlliance 5 months ago
I am 16 years old. Me and my friends, which are about the same age, found this by coincidence. We are now sure about one thing. THIS IS AWESOME AND WE WILL NOT LET IT DIE!
Buorin 9 months ago
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maggot1111666 9 months ago
That blonde fun-boy needs a slap.
joedave2son 9 months ago
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maggot1111666 9 months ago
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maggot1111666 9 months ago
they have a great time
grooveabilities 9 months ago
Aaron Spears on drums?
majklB95 10 months ago
@majklB95 Chris Miskel
luk3tt1 9 months ago
crazy bass line
ianidinuse 10 months ago
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tbedir 10 months ago
some people comes to the world, just to make great music!
kahvevotka 10 months ago
In the sax Dave Koz
BioMaroc 10 months ago
exelente, de lo mejor q haya escuchado!!!!
guitarojo 10 months ago
I'm loving this!!!! Awesome, truly talented!
Hzkween 10 months ago
I have played reeds for more than 30 years, and I can say, you only become good through practice, practice, practice. Einstein once said that simplicity is the art or Genius. These guys make this gig look simple.
harthenry 10 months ago
@harthenry Its very well presented and its real hard to do but they make it look easy
stringmachine2000 10 months ago
What's the fuck is going on here? My brain exploded. Amazing! God damn it! I love this song
piotrnysapl 11 months ago 9
This is just mind blowing. Love this band!! Theses guys are so great together. I especially liked the slide trombone,don't see enough of that anymore. He is so talented.
Thanks for the video Enoc.
paciphish 11 months ago
cool!..wow..that sounds good to me...
MrPolyjam 11 months ago
2 dislikes? looks like there are 2 bieber's fans there.
Vistalavista123 11 months ago
4:38 is that gt-8 processor??
emregunemre 11 months ago
1:45 LOL :D but great player
emregunemre 11 months ago
Thank you for your quick reply. I'm a relative newcomer to the utube scene, but not to the music scene. Boy am I enjoying some of the performances. One final comment on BC, re his trombone playing, absolutely out of this world. Music, especially of the variety that touches the soul - look at BC's expressions whilst playing & listening - is what creates vibrancy, life & joy. All the veryy best.
alantbull1 11 months ago
The featured sax player in this video is Dave Koz, top of the line smooth jazz sax player. The other featured sax players in the "Live from the Inside" album are Eric Darius, Michael Lington, and Eric Marienthal. All of them are smooth jazz stars in their own right, so look em up!! Oh, and while you're at it, look up Gerald Albright!! You won't be disappointed...
EnocMunoz 11 months ago 13
It is obvious that I was referring to 30 years in terms of jazz/rock fusion (with some funk thrown in). It's been 50 - 60 years in terms of free form jazz creative artists and another 100 years in terms of jazz's evolution. Brian is playing a style that began 30 years go and was performed better by the originators of that style. I do not hold that against him. I want Brian to succeed musically as well as financially, but he will not get my money. I reserve my support for great living legends.
HenryAlliance 1 year ago
@HenryAlliance, hi, would you be kind enough to tell me who the sax player is with BC on Get it On, is it M Lington? Thank you. This guy & Kim Waters are my favourite musicians. This music fills me with so much joyful energy, a true gift of classic/professional & dedicated, soulful people. Absolutely superb.
alantbull1 11 months ago
The white dude has the black trombone.
zzzuppermen 1 year ago
amazing!!!*****
lexigan 1 year ago
FIVE STAR BIG LIKE!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!
Kimifan199 1 year ago
esto es extremadamente bueno deberia ser muy famoso
camilopezr11 1 year ago
esto es extremadamente bueno deveria ser muy famoso
camilopezr11 1 year ago
Sigh, why do Jazzmen get so hung up on labels. It's just a name, don't fuss over it...
Lahed92801 1 year ago
WOW!!! it's amazing!
gbopor 1 year ago
Lol...Dave Koz's face at 4:06 is like "what planet is this guy from he can play everything!"
TheSaxMaster100 1 year ago
this is madness!!! no, this is Brian Culbertson´s band...
sebajo82 1 year ago
This is smooth jazz with a funk groove & jazzy solos, but in defense of pablosaxo & jazz purists everywhere, "This isn't jazz". The closest thing to jazz here are those "jazzy solos". This has a minimum of improvisation and therefore only qualifies as "Smooth Jazz". Sure the musicianship is excellent! However, the Brecker Brothers were playing jazz/funk with REAL solos back in the 1970's. I refer you all to the "Back to Back" album with Will Lee, Don Grolnick & Steve Gadd as just one example.
HenryAlliance 1 year ago
@HenryAlliance and @pablosaxo- I completely understand your points of view. Nothing will ever compare to the uniqueness of bona fide, old school pure jazz improvisation much like there will never be another "Godfather of Soul". I also concede that current music nowdays is highly commercial, smooth jazz included. However, my intention was for people to realize that smooth jazz can be really good in a live setting such as this w/ competent musicians. Ke$ha and Gaga got nothing on this, IMHO...
EnocMunoz 1 year ago 20
@EnocMunoz - True enough. The studio recording is in fact a good production and the performance quality has the energy of a live concert. It reminds me of my Richmond group, "Chez Roue". I have worked with Bob Funk (trombone with the Uptown horns who worked with James Brown) and I have recorded with James Brown's son (who is very talented), so I have seen, and participated in, this type of high energy performance. There is nothing wrong with that, but I live for musical creativity and interplay!
HenryAlliance 1 year ago
@EnocMunoz Yes I agree with you its fun and its moving old skool Jazz will always be there and its great but this new stuff is great to in its own way one its new and two it feels good
stringmachine2000 10 months ago
@EnocMunoz
Why we arguing? This is straight, pure, unadulterated funk!
ORUPRANKSTAZ 9 months ago
@HenryAlliance... this has everything to do with jazz.... jazz, like any other style, has to move on, develope, otherwise it becomes stale and locked in the past... if you were a fan of fats waller, then heard bill evans you would say evans wasnt playing jazz.... each new age learns from what came before, a style changes, but never loses its identity.... dont put jazz into a bubble and claim anything new or fresh doesnt belong there
slapmyfunkybass 1 year ago
@slapmyfunkybass Hey Slappy,
Fortunately, jazz did move on and develope "jazz/rock fusion" back in the 1970's. (Yes, there were experiments in the 1960's.) Chick's RTF plus Weather Report and the Brecker Bros were some of the best examples of that newly created genre. Brian's re-creation of that style has high energy and it looks good on video, but it's trite and 30 years behind the times. It also doesn't have John Coltrane's inspiration or Michael Brecker's virtuosity.
Musically Yours,
Henry
HenryAlliance 1 year ago
@slapmyfunkybass My point is also that jazz does move on and develope, but you apparently seem to have missed 30 years of innovation by the likes of Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor. You are obviously not listening to Billy Taylor or Joel Futterman. Those are two of a handful of creative musicians who are taking jazz beyond what we have already heard and into new realms today. Musically Yours,
Henry
HenryAlliance 1 year ago
@HenryAlliance... why 30 years? innovation has always been in jazz, not just for the last 30 years... you stated earlier this is not jazz yet you go on to say other musicians are taking jazz beyond what we have already heard which is a complete contradiction.... this is jazz, a fusion of jazz and funk... if people listen to this and it opens doors to the jazz greats then why not... stop living in the past, listen to the music for what it is
slapmyfunkybass 1 year ago
@slapmyfunkybass hi, would you be kind enough to tell me who the sax player is with BC on Get it On, is it M Lington? Thank you. This guy & Kim Waters are my favourite musicians. This music fills me with so much joyful energy, a true gift of classic/professional & dedicated, soulful people. Absolutely superb.
alantbull1 11 months ago
@alantbull1 hi... it's dave koz.... an amazing player
slapmyfunkybass 11 months ago
@slapmyfunkybass When the majority of mass audiences are not hip enough to appreciate the aforementioned geniuses, they'll settle for Brian C and Dave K. If the rest of the mass audience is even less discerning they'll settle for Kenny G or Boney J. Take consolation in these facts: Brian C and Dave K is are good performers plus their music is superior to Kenny G's and Boney J's.
Musically Yours,
Henry
HenryAlliance 1 year ago
@HenryAlliance I have to laugh at these pompous record collectors (obviously not musicians) that trivialize the enormously talented musicians here by comparing them with great musicians of the past. Why compare? These labels like "Smooth Jazz" are just media rhetoric. These guys are MUSICIANS, plain and simple. The fact that there's a sick arrangement on this piece instead of improvisation makes it inferior how? These small-minded wannabe's bashing the new stars is pathetic.
nbfinex 5 months ago
hahahaha thats my band teacher on trp hittin those highs!! lol
k1dfresh23 1 year ago
who is the drummer?
adrimaulanasadira 1 year ago
OH HELL TO THE YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
deeway1963 1 year ago
Fuck yeah ;]
Cazorla2314 1 year ago
i enjoyed this song more because dave and brian have got some similar gestures when they perfom, they usually act funny stuff you know like puppets hahaha and this makes their performances more enjoyable
jazzygodfrey 1 year ago
that's aaron spears?
milganalexandernarva 1 year ago
Is that an alto or a tenor sax? I bet it's a tenor sax but I'm not sure...
LieInTheMirror 1 year ago
@LieInTheMirror tenor
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